All business cases and some business issue articles presented below received a grade of A or A+ from my professors in graduate school. The remaining business issue articles were ungraded because I wrote them after finishing graduate school.

Business Issues:

During the current Coronavirus global pandemic societies everywhere are confronting a stark choice between minimizing the harm caused by the virus and minimizing the harm caused by lockdowns and stay-at-home orders.

With another new year comes another tax season. The IRS will probably begin accepting and processing returns sometime in late January, 2020. Here is a summary of some key tax rules that will help you plan your income taxes better.

IRC Section 1031 allows taxpayers to exchange like-kind business and investment real estate tax free. Under the new tax law that took effect on January 1, 2018 personal property and intangible assets no longer qualify for a tax free like...

For many people it's not obvious what records and information their accountant needs. This article will discuss the most important information your accountant must know when it's time to do your taxes.

It is an unfortunate fact that many people and businesses treat administrative tasks like opening up mail as a nuisance. When people get busy with substantive work and the distracting events of life these seeming nuisance tasks get neglected, leading...

The job market today is tough and highly competitive. The first concern of many employees is to just hold onto their job. Labor force mobility (workers quitting one job to begin another) is at an all-time low. But all workers...

Anyone who owns anything of value needs three things to document their intentions and protect their interests. These three critical documents are a will, a durable power of attorney and a living trust.

One of the most generous and most overlooked Maine income tax credits is the so-called Credit for Educational Opportunity. In my experience few accountants and even fewer clients are aware of its existence. The credit is intended to reward college-educated...

The tax law is a strange hybrid containing many obscure rules, exceptions to the exceptions, and deeply counter-intuitive definitions. Buried in the clutter of what Congress created is opportunity. Finding useful opportunities in the tax law is like digging through...

According to a January 2015 news release from the IRS, for the period 2011 – 2014 the tax agency stopped 19 million suspicious tax returns and prevented the issuance of approximately $63 billion in phony refunds.

Business owners are the nucleus of their business, the center upon which everything else depends. It is frequently the case that business owners simply can't afford to get sick. Healthy food is the best preventative medicine of all.